Category 1
Bonus Trashketball: This Colony was a safe haven for debtors from England.
Georgia
This colonial city was originally settled by the Dutch and called New Amsterdam.
New York City
This Colony formed the House of Burgesses, and started the tradition of Representative government.
Virginia
This colony was founded in 1636 by Thomas Hooker
Connneticut
System of economics that depend on the exchange of raw materials for finished goods.
Mercantilism
The Puritans came over to the new world in search of what freedom?
Religious Freedom
What cash crop was grown in the southern colonies?
Tobacco, cotton, rice, indigo (cash crops)
Goods sent or sold to another country.
Exports
Bonus Trashketball: Who is the founder of Pennsylvania?
William Penn
Bonus Trashketball: What was the first permanent English settlement in America?
Jamestown
Colonists grew wheat and grains in this colonial region? It earned the nickname as the breadbasket of the colonies.
The Middle Colonies
What English king granted a charter to create the Jamestown colony?
King James I
Bonus Trashketball: This colony was a charter colony granted by King Charles to create a safe haven for Catholics. Helped settled and developed by Lord Baltimore.
Maryland
What "secret weapon" did colonists have, that dramatically affected native populations?
DISEASES
This colony was carved out of Pennsylvania because it was too far away from Philadelphia to participate in government
Delaware
This type of colony is ruled directly by Great Britain and Parliament elected to a royal governor and council.
Royal Charter
Bonus Trashketball: Ship building was a major industry in what colonial region.
New England
Goods brought into a country.
Imports
In 1636, Rhode Island became a colony after _____________________, a clergyman, obtained a charter from England to form the colony.
Roger Williams
Bonus Trashketball: At first, who helped English settlers survive in the Colonies
Native Americans
Bonus Trashketball: What is a territory settled by people from another country and controlled by that country?
A colony/colonies
Bonus Trashketball: He was the original leader of the Jamestown colony?
John Smith
Goods sold for profit by a country to another country.
Export
Bonus Trashketball: What was the document that the Pilgrims created that set aside laws and a social code called?
The Mayflower Compact
What group of people is associated with the Middle Colonies and is known for wanting equal rights? (Think oats)
Quakers
Why was it so difficult to grow European crops in the New England region?
Very Cold, Long winters, Hard, rocky soil, mountains, thick forests.
This type of colony which was created for profit.
Proprietary Colony
Bonus Trashketball: Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
Indentured Servant
The current day state of Maine was part of what colony during colonial times?
Massachusetts
Which Colonial Region is associated with whaling and lumber?
New England Colonies